...nd had not left her until he had sat with her for an hour, or more, over a bowl of punch, which he made on purpose for her. Mr. Trippet stayed too. “A... ...her good-humour. The supper was got ready, and the gentlemen had the punch-bowl when the cloth was cleared,—Mrs. Catherine, with her delicate hands, ... ...s to describe the conversation that took place, or to reckon the number of bowls that were emptied; or to tell how Mr. Trippet, who was one of the gue... ...would never have gone thither; if he had not been fond of Rhenish wine and sugar, he never would have called for any such delicacies; if he had not ca... ...ances made to her by Silverkoop; if he had not been so fond of Rhenish and sugar, he never would have died; and Mrs. Silverkoop would have been neithe... ... age of two, when his strength enabled him to toddle abroad, his favourite resort was the coal-hole or the dung-heap: his roarings had not diminished ... ...; the butter, which he ate with or without bread, as he could find it; the sugar, which he cunningly secreted in the leaves of a “Baker’s Chronicle,” ... ... fatal night when he met this fair creature at a certain place of publique resort, called Marylebone Gardens, our Cyrus hath been an altered creature....

...ine, or, as the sailors usually call it, a gant line; with the end of this a bowline is taken round the stay, into which the man gets with his bucket ... ...t heaven and earth,’’ and if the rope slips, breaks, or is let go, or if the bowline slips, he falls overboard or breaks his neck. This, however, is ... ... for some time, when we were both obliged to brace up and come upon a taught bowline, after rounding the point; and here he had us on fair ground, an... ...nder the sun. We had spirits of all kinds, (sold by the cask,) teas, coffee, sugars, spices, raisins, molasses, hardware, crockery ware, tinware, cu... ...olling back upon us. But the great- est trouble was with the large boxes of sugar. These, we had to place upon oars, and lifting them up rest the oar... ...r work; for our officer had been very wasteful of them, and the tea, flour, sugar, and molasses, were all gone. We suspected him of sending them up t... ...the time, and a perfect memory, gave him a knowledge of the expedients and resorts in times of hazard, which was remark- able, and for which I beca... ...ve been tolerated, any more than whistling, or a wind instrument. The last resort, that of speculating upon the future, seemed now to fail us, for ... ...a fair and peaceful looking spot is said to have been, for a long time, the resort of a band of pirates, who ravaged the tropical seas. Thursda...